1.1 MILLION USERS HAVE BEEN LOCKED OUT OF THEIR BITCOIN SINCE JUNE — AND THE REGULATOR JUST SAID NO AGAIN
BaFin refused bitcoin.de's MiCA license. Trading has been frozen since June 12 and 1.1 million customers' coins were already moved to...
SAYLOR BOUGHT 334 BITCOIN LAST WEEK. STRIVE BOUGHT 2,000 WITH MONEY THAT COSTS 13% A YEAR — AND IT IS ALREADY UNDERWATER
Strive bought 2,000 BTC for $169M last week — six times what Saylor's Strategy bought — funded by preferred stock paying...
$15 TRILLION BLACKROCK SAYS ROBOTS WILL SAVE IN BITCOIN – AND THE ROBOTS WILL HOLD THEIR OWN KEYS. YOU STILL WON’T.
BlackRock's new 'Machine-Native Economy' report says the next big source of crypto demand is software, not people - stablecoins for spending,...
A MAN WAS BEATEN WITH HAMMERS FOR 45 MINUTES UNTIL HE SENT HIS BITCOIN — AND THE ‘EXPERTS’ ARE BLAMING HIS SELF-CUSTODY WALLET
Three masked men, a fourth on FaceTime, 45 minutes of hammers, and a threat to stab a seven-months-pregnant woman. Chainalysis says...
CHINA BANNED CRYPTO FOR 13 YEARS — CHAINALYSIS SAYS SELF-CUSTODY WALLETS GREW 43X ANYWAY
Chainalysis found unique peer-to-peer stablecoin wallets in China grew 43-fold in two years and now drive 59.1% of a $176 billion...
FINCEN JUST KILLED THE DRAGNET FOR YOUR SELF-CUSTODY WALLET — AND TOLD YOU IN WRITING IT’S COMING BACK
FinCEN quietly withdrew its 2020 unhosted-wallet reporting rule and its 2023 “primary money laundering concern” finding on crypto mixing. Coin Center...
BLOCK JUST SPENT MILLIONS TELLING 60 MILLION AMERICANS BITCOIN IS MONEY — WHILE ITS OWN APP HOLDS THE KEYS
Block's "Bitcoin Does" campaign launched Oct 1 to sell bitcoin as everyday money to 60 million Americans. Then there's the fine...
BITCOIN IS TRAPPED IN A $3,000 BOX WHILE CITI PUMPS A $113,000 TARGET — HERE IS WHO PAYS FOR THAT GAP
Citi hiked its Bitcoin target 38% to $113,000. Bitcoin can't hold $85,000 and volume is bleeding. The bank gets paid either...
THE SEC JUST ADMITTED SELF-CUSTODY IS REAL — THEN BURIED IT UNDER A CONDITION
The SEC proposed new crypto custody rules on Oct 1, letting advisers and funds hold client crypto themselves — but only...
BITCOIN’S LOUDEST PURIST JUST TOOK THE BIGGEST MINER’S PAYCHECK TO BUILD A PRIVATE LANE FOR YOUR TRANSACTIONS
Peter Todd spent years arguing nobody should control what gets relayed. Now he runs Slipstream, MARA's private mempool - where a...
Quick Reads
THE ‘LEDGER HACK’ WASN’T A HACK: A HIDDEN BOARD UNDER THE SCREEN WATCHED YOUR 24 WORDS WALK OUT OVER CELLULAR
Nobody hacked Ledger's code. Someone wired a second board into the screen, read your 24 words as they were drawn, and...
BITCOIN HARDWARE WALLETS JUST GOT HIT: LEDGER TOLD 90 DAYS OF BUYERS NOT TO TURN THEM ON – INVESTIGATORS SAY $86 MILLION IS GONE
Ledger told buyers from a Malaysian reseller not to set up their devices, then told the ones who already did to...